George A. Thompson
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Faded Footprints
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Some Dreams Die
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Throw Down The Box!
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Treasure Mountain
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Faded
Footprints
The Lost Rhoads Mines And Other Treasure
Tales of the Uinta Mountains Killer Mountains
by George A. Thompson
This fascinating and long-awaited book tells the real
story of the lost Rhoads gold mine as well as tales
of many other lost and forgotten mines and treasures
in Utah's "killer" mountains, mountains where many
prospectors and treasure hunters have met untimely
and mysterious deaths. Published for the first time
ever are drawings of old treasure hunters' maps and
other information gathered in decades of research and
searching. In this book can be found information that
Footprints in the Wilderness, the book many
use in their search for the lost Rhoads mine, does
not contain. Faded Footprints now amplifies
and clarifies much of that earlier book. This book is
a must for every treasure hunter's bookshelf, as well
as being a rich treasure trove of information for all
those interested in Utah history and mining.
Some Dreams
Die
Utah's Ghost Towns & Lost Treasures
by George A. Thompson
Some Dreams Die is the most comprehensive
guide to Utah's ghost towns ever assembled. In the
course of his research the author visited the sites
of over four hundred deserted communities and probed
their unique histories. Each town is carefully
described and located, making it simple for the
reader to retrace the author's steps and visit these
monuments to perseverance, gumption, faith, greed,
and foolishness. 120 photographs and 12 detailed
regional maps make it the most useful book of its
kind.
Throw Down The
Box!
Treasure Tales From Gilmer & Salisbury, The
Western Stagecoach King
by George A. Thompson (this title is
now out of print)
This is the story of Gilmer & Salisbury, giants of
western stagecoaching, the company whose stages
rolled along more than six thousand miles of road, in
every western state. Their main lines, along with
dozens of smaller branch lines, served nearly every
mining camp, and ranch town in the West, but few
today remember Gilmer & Salisbury, for much of their
history has been lost or forgotten. Hopefully, this
book will recapture part of their colorful and
fascinating story.
Treasure
Mountain Home
Park City Revisited
by George A. Thompson
With Fraser Buck
This entertaining volume tells the history of Park
City, Utah from its first days as a frontier mining
camp to its present status as one of America's
premier winter-sports havens. Between these two
incarnations the famed "treasure chest of the
Wasatch" was home to breeds of men and ways of life
as extinct today as the mechanical dinosaurs that
litter the hillsides around the town, reminding
visitors of her origins. How the city survived the
vicious cycles of boom and bust, speculation and
panic and the Great Depression is recalled, always
with an eye to the fascinating characters who
propelled her history.